Communications: electrical – Land vehicle alarms or indicators – External signal light system
Patent
1994-04-25
1996-03-12
Peng, John K.
Communications: electrical
Land vehicle alarms or indicators
External signal light system
340464, B60Q 144
Patent
active
054990106
ABSTRACT:
Apparent motion is created in an object to stimulate rapid M cell response in an observer's visual system. In one embodiment, a vehicle is equipped with at least left and right pairs of brake lights spaced apart about 1 to 60 minutes of visual angle at the viewing distance. Vehicle braking activates the innermost of each pair of lights for duration T1, and after a duration T2, the outermost of each pair of lights is activated for the duration of the braking action. T1 is determined by luminous energy intensity from the innermost brake lights, and for incandescent lights is in the range of about 5 ms to about 50 ms. Duration T2 is selected to preclude an overlap in the observer's visual system between response to the end of the first-activated light, and the response commencing with the start of the second-activated light. For incandescent lights, T2 is in the range from about zero to about 50 ms. An observer rapidly perceives the brake lights as looming closer, due to the inward-to-outward sweeping visual image that enhances salience. Because the observer's M cells appear to be primarily stimulated by the luminous energy, the observer can react more rapidly to the braking action than to conventional brake lights.
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Peng John K.
The Regents of the University of California
Tong Nina
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